April 6, 2014

Drugged Up Jihadist Terrorists In Syria Are Setting Up The "Large Scale Production" of CW Gases For Future Use

Syria is being overrun by tens of thousands of drugged up, sociopathic Jokers who believe blowing up entire communities is fun and laugh at their crimes and the carnage they leave behind. And they're being backed by Washington, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, France, England, Israel, Qatar, Pakistan, and a few other countries.

While the Western and Gulf media lead people to
believe that jihadists get their nourishment primarily from the verses
of the Koran, the seizures made in Syria show that in reality, they feed
on Captagon.

In two days, the Syrian Arab Army took hold of a car full of Captagon tablets and a tank truck containing a ton.

Captagon (Fenetylline hydrochloride) is an amphetamine that causes
euphoria and numbs the pain. Mixed with other drugs like hashish, it
constitutes the basic feed ration for the jihadists. Combatants neither
feel their own suffering nor the suffering they inflict on others.
Therefore, they can commit all sorts of atrocities, laughing.

Fenethylline is a popular drug, allegedly used by anti-government forces, in the Syrian Civil War. It is manufactured locally in a cheap and simple process. According to
Khabib Ammar, a local media activist, anti-government groups would also
export the drug in exchange for weapons.

The conflict has turned it into a major consumer and exporter of the drugs,
which are said to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in profits each
year.

The main stimulant in question is Captagon, the former brand name of a drug
first used as an antidepressant in the West in the 1960s, but now banned in
most countries because of its addictive properties.

According an investigation by the Reuters news agency, Syriangovernment forces and rebel groups both accuse each other of using
Captagon to fight prolonged battles without sleep. The pills, which many
ordinary Syrians are also increasingly turning to, sell for between £3 and
£15.

Captagon is often made by amateur chemists in makeshift lab.

Production is both cheap and simple, requiring "only basic knowledge of
chemistry and a few scales", according to Ramzi Haddad, a Lebanese
psychiatrist.

"It gives you a kind of euphoria," he said. "You're talkative,
you don't sleep, you don't eat, you're energetic."

A drug control officer in the central city of Homs said he had observed the
effects of Captagon on protesters and fighters held for questioning.

"We would beat them, and they wouldn't feel the pain," he said. "Many
of them would laugh while we were dealing them heavy blows."

For months there had been acute concern among senior military leaders
and the intelligence community about the role in the war of Syria’s
neighbours, especially Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan was known to
be supporting the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist faction among the rebel
opposition, as well as other Islamist rebel groups. ‘We knew there were
some in the Turkish government,’ a former senior US intelligence
official, who has access to current intelligence, told me, ‘who believed
they could get Assad’s nuts in a vice by dabbling with a sarin attack
inside Syria – and forcing Obama to make good on his red line threat.’

The
joint chiefs also knew that the Obama administration’s public claims
that only the Syrian army had access to sarin were wrong. The American
and British intelligence communities had been aware since the spring of
2013 that some rebel units in Syria were developing chemical weapons. On
20 June analysts for the US Defense Intelligence Agency issued a highly
classified five-page ‘talking points’ briefing for the DIA’s deputy
director, David Shedd, which stated that al-Nusra maintained a sarin
production cell: its programme, the paper said, was ‘the most advanced
sarin plot since al-Qaida’s pre-9/11 effort’. (According to a Defense
Department consultant, US intelligence has long known that al-Qaida
experimented with chemical weapons, and has a video of one of its gas
experiments with dogs.) The DIA paper went on: ‘Previous IC
[intelligence community] focus had been almost entirely on Syrian CW
[chemical weapons] stockpiles; now we see ANF attempting to make its own
CW … Al-Nusrah Front’s relative freedom of operation within Syria leads
us to assess the group’s CW aspirations will be difficult to disrupt in
the future.’The paper drew on classified intelligence from numerous
agencies: ‘Turkey and Saudi-based chemical facilitators,’ it said, ‘were
attempting to obtain sarin precursors in bulk, tens of kilograms,
likely for the anticipated large scale production effort in Syria.’
(Asked about the DIA paper, a spokesperson for the director of national
intelligence said: ‘No such paper was ever requested or produced by
intelligence community analysts.’)

Last May, more than ten members
of the al-Nusra Front were arrested in southern Turkey with what local
police told the press were two kilograms of sarin. In a 130-page
indictment the group was accused of attempting to purchase fuses, piping
for the construction of mortars, and chemical precursors for sarin.
Five of those arrested were freed after a brief detention.The others,
including the ringleader, Haytham Qassab, for whom the prosecutor
requested a prison sentence of 25 years, were released pending trial. In
the meantime the Turkish press has been rife with speculation that the
Erdoğan administration has been covering up the extent of its
involvement with the rebels. In a news conference last summer, Aydin
Sezgin, Turkey’s ambassador to Moscow, dismissed the arrests and claimed
to reporters that the recovered ‘sarin’ was merely ‘anti-freeze’.